http://www.metafilter.com/tags/johnfoxe Posts tagged with 'johnfoxe' at MetaFilter. Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:11:00 -0800 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:11:00 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/58043/Book%2Dof%2DMartyrs <a href="http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/transcript.html">John Foxe's Book of Martyrs</a> offers complete, searchable transcriptions of the 1563, 1570, 1576, and 1583 editions of Foxe's <i>Actes and Monuments</i>... Readers can juxtapose two editions to see Foxe's alterations. The site includes images of the foldout woodcuts, along with the title pages. Other goodies include a raft of introductory essays and detailed commentaries on the illustrations to books 10-12. See also the <a href="http://dlib.lib.ohio-state.edu/foxe/">Foxe Digital Library Project</a> at Ohio State University, which includes woodcuts, images of selected pages, and an exhibition catalog. There are more woodcuts from the 1610 edition at Penn's <a href="http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/foxe/foxeindex.html">Center for Electronic Text and Image</a> and from the 1784 edition at <a href="http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/spec/rarebooks/martyrs/trapp1784.html">Kansas State University</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.58043 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:11:00 -0800 earlymodern history johnfoxe martyrology religion sixteenthcentury thomas j wise